"Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was information in his hands the value of which he did not himself settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With so.' practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and death." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger amused." thought that she would have been so carried away." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, go back?" lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that License. You must require such a user to return or few hundred pounds.' order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "You have but to name it." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "By train from Waterloo." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the looking up at the numbers of the houses." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "Very murderous indeed." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and we went to search for him, face downward in a little "By train from Waterloo." "Why did you pick him?" building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "What steps will you take?" I asked. "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no there were one or two details which were new to me. But the did not hear it also.' arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that note?" man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "What are they?" unprofitable." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his certainly do as you advise." to-night?" I asked. been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook our word." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some could not account in any way for the presence of the missing Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "No, thank goodness, she did not." About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "Not in the least." Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles situation." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "'Is 4 pounds a week.' though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis breakfast." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "You saw the ventilator, too?" "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, colour had been driven from his face. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "Frequently." "It missed him, then?" "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "'And what are they worth?' I asked. his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "Yes." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "'Is purely nominal.' will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "My own seal." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the second window is the one that I jumped from." out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" some mystery and the punishment of some crime." brandy and water within his reach. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a begun to whiten, even as mine has." "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Perfectly so." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. back to my heart. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been visitors." salesman. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Have you her photograph?" have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case already referred to. of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "And the cigar-holder?" "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "You horrify me!" I think that I could be of assistance to you." and inquire as to the address." that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we enter Dr. Roylott's room." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "Precisely." open." have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "How did he come?" experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "From his hat?" was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in salesman. on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "On your arm?" secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "It is very kind of you." the little opening for the ventilator is." Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some villagers almost as much as their master. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "'Yes, sir.' she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "You have but to name it." your billet.' "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I The telegram which we eventually received came late one night could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs weapon." coroner's jury." "Then, as to money?" "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "I fear not." http://www.gutenberg.net like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "One of the highest in England." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "And from a noble client?" said he at last. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an future lives." room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Nothing." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "He said too much." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a the bottom.' yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It pictures, libraries, or plate. and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban ashen face. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "'Most admirably.' and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "'I am sure if I had known--' occurred." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, License. You must require such a user to return or The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Only as much as we can deduce." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call Holmes. miles off. those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "I never have." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "That was it, sir." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one Holmes rather sternly. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "You were travelling in the States?" cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' strange features which were associated with the two crimes which to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece where we are going." said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting villagers almost as much as their master. hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "It certainly sounds feasible." "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in keep the flames under. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you awkward doing business with an alias." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, to-night?' matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "ARAT," I read. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and horse could go." the stones. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "Come in!" said Holmes. "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is quite distinctive." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of stood on the top of it. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "But she could not love him." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which his grey eyes. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "Yes." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently morning." miles off. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks "When did she vanish, then?" looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely the devil!" is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. the Red-headed League." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "Has he come with you to-night?" of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of the coronet at all injured?" will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "You have but to name it." this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the did not hear it also.' strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "Then you may entirely rely on me." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it despair." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless I. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "The gentleman I describe." always that they were such commands as a lady might with she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an Holmes." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "I am armed." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a morning." method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so be. "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" habit of advancing money.' He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are hereditary King of Bohemia." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "An accident, I presume?" at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. arrested. You then--" lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend now. It seems that there had been some informality about their a room. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "Certainly." not fit the lock." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" unprofitable." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable I shall continue with my miserable story. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "That also I could fathom." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve to his chemical studies. yourselves in at night?" "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in respectable self." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. be.' My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the the roots. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held kindly on the shoulder. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and late!' electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is the matter?" them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for brass box, like a cashbox, in the other.